While we are focusing on fear, worry, or hate, it is not possible for us to be experiencing happiness, enthusiasm or love. Bo Bennett on happiness
The most worth-while thing is to try to put happiness into the lives of others. Robert Baden-Powell on happiness
Little islands of human happiness, peace, and prosperity are so exceptional at this point in history that I'm not even sure we can draw lessons from them. P. J. O'Rourke on happiness
The happiness of one's own heart alone cannot satisfy the soul one must try to include, as necessary to one's own happiness, the happiness of others. Paramahansa Yogananda on happiness
Caring about others, running the risk of feeling, and leaving an impact on people, brings happiness. Harold Kushner on happiness
Wisdom is the supreme part of happiness. Sophocles on happiness
Plenty of people miss their share of happiness, not because they never found it, but because they didn't stop to enjoy it. William Feather on happiness
The great thing in the world is not so much to seek happiness as to earn peace and self-respect. Thomas Huxley on happiness
Curiosity is one of the great secrets of happiness. Bryant H. McGill on happiness
There is no end of craving. Hence contentment alone is the best way to happiness. Therefore, acquire contentment. Sivananda on happiness
I refuse to accept other people's ideas of happiness for me. As if there's a 'one size fits all' standard for happiness. Kanye West on happiness
I would not give half a guinea to live under one form of government other than another. It is of no moment to the happiness of an individual. Samuel Johnson on happiness
We are long before we are convinced that happiness is never to be found, and each believes it possessed by others, to keep alive the hope of obtaining it for himself. Samuel Johnson on happiness
There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man, by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern. Samuel Johnson on happiness
There is nothing, Sir, too little for so little a creature as man. It is by studying little things that we attain the great art of having as little misery and as much happiness as possible. Samuel Johnson on happiness
There is no private house in which people can enjoy themselves so well as at a capital tavern... No, Sir there is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. Samuel Johnson on happiness
Happiness is a choice that requires effort at times. Aeschylus on happiness
Happiness is the only sanction of life where happiness fails, existence remains a mad and lamentable experiment. George Santayana on happiness
You traverse the world in search of happiness, which is within the reach of every man. A contented mind confers it on all. Horace on happiness
There is no true love save in suffering, and in this world we have to choose either love, which is suffering, or happiness. Man is the more man - that is, the more divine - the greater his capacity for suffering, or rather, for anguish. Miguel de Unamuno on happiness